Elytropus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1860. It contains only one known species, Elytropus chilensis, native to Chile and to Rio Negro Province in Argentina.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesMorales, J.F. (2013). Sinopsis de las Apocynaceae s.str. (Apocynoideae y Rauvolfioideae) de Chile. Darwiniana, n.s., 1: 39-45.
formerly included Elytropus pubescens (Wall. ex G.Don) Miers = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don Elytropus spectabilis (Stadelm.) Miers = Macropharynx spectabilis (Stadelm.) Woodson
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